In December 2017, Western Digital announced it a 14 TB, conventional magnetic recording hard drive which would be its highest capacity hard drive recording to date. Over two weeks ago, Western Digital released the HGST Ultra star DC HC530 which could store 14 TB of data with smooth, consistent readings due to its perpendicular magnetic recording and two-dimensional magnetic recording. Along with 267 MB/s sustained transfer rate that will be able to handle all of your enterprise server request or random write workloads. As SSD start to evolve to become affordable for data centers, it’s great to see companies making a powerhouse of a hard drive for current data centers.

So in it’ simplicity it was just way for getting higher capacity for SMR drives but with an HDD with 2 to 3 independent read elements that can that increase the connectivity to from other tracks to cancel noise.

The HGST Ultrastar HC350 built for performance rated at 550 TB/ annual workloads, a 2.5 million hours MTBF and a five-year limited warranty. The specifications regarding performance this hard drive includes a 267 MB/s sustained transfer rate, a 4.16 ms average latency, and 7.5 ms seek time. Regarding security with the Ultrastar, DC HC530 has its self-encryption capability, instant secure erase feature security, and TCG (Trusted Computer Grouping) encryption to various parties. This drive will be available in both SAS and SATA interfaces.

Specifications:

Specification

SATA

SAS

Load/ Unload Cycles

600,000

600,00

Interface

SATA 6 GB/s

SATA 12 GB/S

Capacity

14 TB

14 TB

Data Buffer

512

512

Rotational Speed

7200

72000

Latency Average

4.16

4.16

Transfer Rate

600

1200

Seek Time

7.5

7.5

MTBF

2.5

2.5

Where to purchase?

Currently, we have very little information on when consumers will be able to purchase this drive as it’s intended just big companies and data centers requiring this large capacity.